Debt Commission Report Targets Social Security, Medicare

Yes, I've read TFA.  Unless I say otherwise, assume I read every FA before I comment.  :-)

Contracts are my life, and what the chairmen are releasing is a shot across the bow, and giving (me, at least) a good idea of what is going to be in the report.  It's the kind of thing that Obama should have done about the healthcare legislation, and in a backwards, perverse way (in what was taken off the table and not allowed into the debate at all), how I and others knew early on that there wasn't going to be any cost cutting/saving mechanisms, no public option, but instead public health k!lling legislation.  

The threshold for privatizing Social Security and making cuts in benefits and raising the age and a few other items on the list has already been met -- The committee was stacked with privatizers and cutters right out of the gate.  Democratic leaders have already signaled they're open to it.  

I don't know how old you are or who you are, but the American people have been down this road before, of cuts to benefits and age raising.  This isn't something new to us.  We know how the "wearing your opposition down" works.  Politicians (both sides of the aisle) have been waging a war on Social Security (and all social programs), while laying out the (People's) larder for Big Business.  If only they fought for the People's issues with the same vigor and commitment as they fought for their Corporate Masters' issues.

But politicians are not 'regular folk' like you and me.  They're in politics for power and money.  The contempt and resentment they have for much of their constituency back home is palpable.  Very few of them return home when they leave office.  They either stay in Washington and work another leg of politics (lobbying, lawyering, public relations, foundations, think tanks, etc.) or they relocate to another state, not their home state.  

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